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Directed by 1985 by Eurcine alum Bernard Launois, Devil Story (or, if you prefer, Il était une fois le diable in its native France), starts out with a scene where a deformed man (Pascal Simon) referred to as a monster and then later as a gargoyle running about rural France in an SS uniform wreaking havoc. First a woman gathers logs in the woods and literally skips (no seriously, we see her skipping through the woods – and she’s not a little
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In a rural Asian village, a group of young women go swimming. One of them is attacked by a crocodile and eaten. A local witch doctor hangs a dead chicken and recites a spell to draw the guilty crocodile to him, which he then kills and guts, retrieving an amulet the devoured girl had owned. The action then cuts to Hong Kong, where a man watches a young dancer in a discotheque, but the dancer leaves with
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Directed by Peter Medak and based on the ‘true story’ of Russell Hunter, who co-wrote the film, 1980’s The Changeling is widely regarded as one of the best American ghost story movies ever made. And with good reason, as it’s a pretty spooky picture ripe with the type of atmosphere and intensity that’s lacking in so many modern CGI-laden cinematic tales of the supernatural.

To celebrate their fifth anniversary, Vinegar Syndrome give another five of their best horror and exploitation films a welcome Blu-ray upgrade in this exclusive two-disc set. Here’s what to look for…

Cry Wilderness:

Cry Wilderness is a real gem. The film introduces us to a boy named Paul Cooper (Eric Foster). When we meet him, he has wandered away from his class during a field trip to a museum. His teacher, Mr. Douglas (Navarre Perry), finds him gazing longingly at a giant Bigfoot display. Douglas tells him Bigfoot isn’t real but Paul knows better because last summer when he was fishing in
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Four Bronson movies on two discs for ten bucks? Yep! Here’s a look at what makes up Mill Creek Entertainment’s Charles Bronson 4-Movie Collection which spreads out four Sony owned properties across two discs.

DISC ONE:

The Valachi Papers:

Based on a 'tell-all' novel that claims to be based on actual mob history by Peter Maas, The Valachi Papers, interestingly enough, had to be filmed in Italy for fear of mafia intervention on American
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When Bad Dreams – number thirty-seven in 88 Films’ Slasher Classics collection - begins, a cult leader named Harris (Richard Lynch) is pouring gasoline all over himself and his followers, about to take them all out in a blaze of glory. A young girl survives but is in a coma. Thirteen years later, this
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Kathleen Conklin (Lily Taylor) is a young philosophy student who lives in New York City. One night, after finishing up a class on atrocities committed during war time, she walks back to her apartment. Along the way, she’s grabbed by Casanova (Annabella Sciorra) and pulled into a
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For a twentieth (!!) time (this series is unstoppable!), those perverts over at Impulse Pictures present another collection of 8mm hardcore loops, preserved digitally for posterity’s sake and now available on DVD for your own personal enjoyment. Here’s what to expect…

LADY ON TOP: This one starts when a blonde businesswoman makes a phone call in her
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Brian Yuzna’s Beyond Re-Animator starts off with a pretty killer prologue. In 1990, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is taken into custody when his former partner, Dan Cain, turns states evidence on him after a zombie that he created kills a teenage girl in her kitchen one dark and rainy night. Not only that, but the zombie does it in front of
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Shot on location in Staten Island for next to nothing, Buddy Giovinazzo’s Combat Shock (presented on this Blu-ray in its director’s cut under its original American Nightmares title) was picked up by Troma and marketed as an action/war picture – which it really isn’t. It’s much more of a dark, urban thriller. Regardless of how you want to classify it, the film is a serious cinematic punch to the gut and one of the most depressing pictures you’ll ever see. It’s also incredibly well made and a testament to Giovinazzo’s skills as a director and to the talent of his cast and crew.

When the film begins, we see a soldier named Frankie (Rick Giovinazzo) in the midst of a firefight in the Vietnam War where he guns down a group of Vietcong. Cut to the present, or at least the early eighties, and Frankie and his wife (Veronica Stork) aren’t doing so well. He’s been out of work a long time and their baby, born a mutant thanks to his father’s exposure to unknown chemicals during his tour of duty, needs to eat. She pressures him to call his dad and ask him to help
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Two dirty movies featuring the lovely and talented Sharon Mitchell on one DVD, transferred from original 1970’s film prints presented by 42nd Street Pete? Yep. That’s exactly what this is, and here’s how it all plays out…

Bad Barbara:

Our first feature, which runs fifty-three minutes, is narrated by Barbara (Sharon Mitchell) who, from a perch in Central Park, tells us about her experiences
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The directorial debut of Rick Sloane, the man who would later grace our eyeballs with such cinematic achievements as Hobgoblins and the Vice Academy series, 1984’s Blood Theatre opens with a scene wherein a male theater owner finds his girlfriend screwing around with another man behind his back. After he sees this, he sets a fire and escapes, leaving the theater
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Loosely based on H. P. Lovecraft's story The Shadow Over Innsmouth but titled after his short story of the same name, 2001’s Dagon, directed by Stuart Gordon from a screenplay by Dennis Paoli, opens with a dream sequence in which a young man named Paul (Ezra Gordon) dives to the ocean floor into a deep pit
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Black Venus (or Vénus noire if you prefer) tells the story of Sarah ‘Saartjes’ Baartman (played by Cuban actress Yahima Torres) and is set in 1808. At twenty-one years of age she’s taken from her home in South Africa, still
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Umbrella Entertainment releases Re-Animator’s two sequels in a nice two-disc special edition Blu-ray set as part of their ongoing ‘Beyond Genres’ line. Here’s the deal:

Bride Of Re-Animator:

Directed by Brian Yuzna in 1990, the man who produced Stuart Gordon's original take on H.P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator back in 1985, Bride Of Re-Animator takes place a few months after the catastrophic conclusion of the first film. When it begins, Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) and his associate Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) have relocated to Peru where they continue with
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